{"id":47,"date":"2005-05-16T19:52:52","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T23:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2005\/05\/16\/adobe-shuts-down-digital-media-store\/"},"modified":"2006-12-10T06:50:28","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T10:50:28","slug":"adobe-shuts-down-digital-media-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2005\/05\/16\/adobe-shuts-down-digital-media-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Shuts Down Digital Media Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a77\"><\/a>Robyn Weisman reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdfzone.com\/article2\/0,1759,1815262,00.asp\">PDFzone<\/a> that Adobe is going to shut down its own e-book\/e-doc <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmediastore.adobe.com\/9B94FB76-43D7-4BC8-B22B-BA3D96A5BB57\/10\/21\/en\/Default.htm\">store<\/a>. Joe Wilcox, analyst at Jupiter Research, provides some background analysis and mentions consumer patterns and pricing as reasons for Adobe&#8217;s lack of success with the digital content store. Some months ago, I&#8217;ve heard similar comments from my colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmediastore.adobe.com\/9B94FB76-43D7-4BC8-B22B-BA3D96A5BB57\/10\/21\/en\/Default.htm\">Mike McGuire<\/a> at GartnerG2. Adobe is <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmediastore.adobe.com\/9B94FB76-43D7-4BC8-B22B-BA3D96A5BB57\/10\/21\/en\/Help-StoreClosing.htm\">pointing <\/a>to increased competition by online retailers such as Amazon.com and eBooks.com. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bna.com\/ilaw\/index.html\">BNA Highlights<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robyn Weisman reports on PDFzone that Adobe is going to shut down its own e-book\/e-doc store. Joe Wilcox, analyst at Jupiter Research, provides some background analysis and mentions consumer patterns and pricing as reasons for Adobe&#8217;s lack of success with the digital content store. Some months ago, I&#8217;ve heard similar comments from my colleague Mike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-products"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}